Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)

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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

It's soooo bad. Could it be a cry for help?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 11 hours ago

No, the guy who did it non-apologized, by going he should have checked the output better. Still an AI user.

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